September 4, 2021 — Learn more about WordPress’ commitment to accessibility and the activities of the Make WordPress Acessibility team.

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September 2, 2021 — This talk suggests what you can do to communicate more effectively with someone who has a hearing difficulty.

August 30, 2021 — This talk encourages tool creators to ensure that their work and their tools enable accessibility.

As creators of themes, plugins, and code that might be used by millions, tool creators have a significant responsibility to ensure that accessibility is a consideration in everything they build.

When a platform improves accessibility, the change can be powerful, trickling down to millions of websites that were built using it.

August 26, 2021 — This talk suggests some best practices for ensuring WordPress backend accessibility.

August 25, 2021 — Less than 3% of all websites are truly accessible to those who are disabled or cognitively challenged. This talk suggests simple ways to enhance your web content to make it more accessible.

August 24, 2021 — This talk provides a nostalgic walk through imagery from the 1980s music scene to show how alt text conveys meaningful information to those who cannot access web images visually. From 99 Red Balloons shaking us all night long to Burning Down the House, let’s not leave any of our users behind.

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August 23, 2021 — Making website content legible for people with disabilities requires some extra attention. Learn how to make informed decisions about displaying website text in a way that makes it easier for people with disabilities to more easily engage with a website.

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August 2, 2021 — Listen in on a conversation between two leading accessibility advocates in the WordPress community.

June 28, 2021 — Web forms should work. No doubt about that. And they should work for all visitors, regardless of device or ability.

Gravity Forms set as goal: to ensure that all forms created with Gravity Forms can be WCAG 2.1 AA compliant. It has been quite an eventful journey and Morgan and Rian are happy to share this with you.

Accessibility always was a focus point of Gravity Forms but, with the fast development of changing accessibility requirements and legislation worldwide, more specialised expertise was needed. Therefore Rian Rietveld, web accessibility specialist from Level Level joined the team.

In this talk we show you the steps we took to test and improve the accessibility of the forms build with Gravity Forms. Like doing an initial audit, training the developers and designers, finding good solutions for issues without breaking existing forms, helping the Q&A team with extra test tools and writing documentation.

This talk is for everyone that wants to enhance the accessibility of a web project and wants to learn the way to implement this in their workflow.

May 26, 2021 — This talk shares a holistic approach for the complete lifecycle of an accessible website, including how to iterate on existing content.